Lack of drive to ‘blog
Admittedly I’ve never been that great at ‘blogging regularly, but of late it’s been even worse, and it’s not even like I don’t have the time…
Perhaps it’s more that a good cup of tea is just that much more interesting than attempting to make the mundane life of a IT Support Technician interesting, which reminds me, tea is important. Whilst to you it may be that it’s just the addition of the leaves of a bountiful Indian bush to boiling dihydrogen oxide, to me it’s the amber elixir of life that keeps me going from one hour to the next.
In tea related quotes: ”Arthur no more knows his destiny than a tea leaf knows the history of the East India Company.” — Douglas Adams
Now I must leave to read BOfH and compile OpenXchange 8 for Centos 5 (SME Server 8), joys.
End Of An Era
Well that’s it, I’ve finished university, I’m scared.
Almost everyone moved out over the past week, Phil went whilst I was away at BUSA Outdoors, shooting truly appallingly in the rain. Being accurate at 90m with a bow is hard.
In the meantime, I’m applying for jobs, and trying to handle being even poorer than a poor student, at least they know when they’ll get paid next.
Lauren’s gone home to start her placement, so I won’t get to see her for at least a month now, at graduation, although I suspect I’m going to have to take a trip on the train before that because I’m missing her already!
OpenGL
Here I am, once again in a OpenGL 3D programming lab, thinking about blogging instead of coding in C++…
Shame!
We just received the coursework spec. for Computer Graphics, it sounds like a good fun project actually, we have to create a scene using OpenGL and GLUT implemented in C++. I’m thinking of resurrecting the old chess set to include in a scene, not entirely sure what else to include as yet.
Ooh…I could have it automagically play a game when you hit a key, but during which you can still bimble around the scene quite happily. Hmm…I might have to learn how to write/compile C++ in linux, cos I’m certainly not wont to reinstall Windows quite yet.
Grr…goram PyMSNt
Somehow…debian or pymsnt is broken…
Every time I try and restart the MSN transport, it tells me I don’t have the python-twisted libraries installed, or the wrong version, but I don’t, they’re installed and they’re the recommended versions.
GRR!
It was working perfectly yesterday, and no packages have changed between then and now.
I don’t understand.
Lack of Singing In Middlesborough Diocese
Mother reckons the whole of the Middlesborough diocese are a bit weird in their approach to the church and to the Mass. I think I’m inclined to agree…Midnight Mass was awful again this year, but at least I wasn’t in a bad mood to begin with, as per usual the organ was a half-beat too slow, but that would’ve been fine, as long as the congregation had actually taken their thumbs out of their arses and actually joined in with the singing.
They had carols for a half hour before as usual, announcing all the hymn numbers so people could join in, and how many did? As far as I could tell, Me and Mum and maybe one or two others. Absolutely appalling, they weren’t any better during the Mass itself.
It’s not like you even have to sing well…I certainly don’t.
Ho Ho Ho! Merry Christmas
Well another year draws to a close, and Christmastide has come once more. It’s been an odd year, all told. I’ve not looked forward to finishing Uni quite so much, and whilst I don’t really want to leave, I want to finish my course, because it’s annoying me somewhat now, and I wish I’d gone for straight CompSci if only for the greater choice of modules in the third year. I only got 3 optional modules, two of which I had to pick.
Midnight Mass had better not be as bad as last year, otherwise I shall be very upset. It was just a very bad end to a bad year I think, and I was in a mood already, before the organist started being crap and the service appalling and the congregation worse.
In good news, went to a very enjoyable 4th Sunday of Advent — or apparently 4th Sunday of Event according to the Missalettes, how we laughed! — Vigil Mass at Our Lady of Lourdes in Saltburn. Organist was a tadge loud though, and we all got very confused during the impromptu ‘In The Bleak Midwinter’ which I love to bits, I’m sure it’s never been that confuddling to sing.
Merry Christmas everyone, and peace.
Shocked.
York vs Bradford vs Lancaster
I am writing this with my mouth hanging open in shock.
I came 8th in the NEAUL match last Saturday with 452 (8 golds), I didn’t even think I’d scored much over 400…certainly not enough to beat my previous personal best of 436 by 16 points.
*bounce*
The match was awfully rushed because we were shooting a full portsmouth round in just over 2 hours, when we normally allow 3, though we do have a ‘Shelley Break’ i.e. fag break, so Shell can go for a cig., when we host. The last dozen had Michael trying to do everything to hurry us up so we could vacate the hall before table tennis invaded.
It was freezing and we’d got there for about 11.30 with the help of the wonderful Jennifer, who duly agreed to drive the ones who wouldn’t fit in Shell’s car, and so a skeleton crew squeezed ourselves into Shelley’s and Jennifer’s cars and set off for York at 10am, assuming that Michael’s email instructions of 1-4pm meant sighters at 1pm, i.e. get there for 12pm, but no, sighters were at about 1.30, and we started shooting properly at about 1.45pm. He meant for us to arrive at 1pm.
Fun Evening
This evening was much fun, after our normal Archery practice session, we all traipsed down the Courtyard for our standard drinking session. Though people didn’t stay very long tonight, so after a pint of Durham Brewery’s White Centennial — which was far too light and a bit odd, and a decent pint of Night Owl (Old Bear Brewery, I think) we bimbled off to Paul’s house.
A quick aside - Paul and Jenny! *bounce* Almost reaching their two week anniversary, which Paul reckoned to be how long they’d last, I don’t think that’s the case, I give them a few months at least.
Since no one was really looking I chose a DVD from Lauren’s collection, Dune, which is ace, though Paul, whilst he was knitting for at least the first 20 minutes - Jenny’s teaching him, it’s easy - entirely failed to understand the plot. So that was great fun in itself.
Much heckling was made, and Lauren kept trying to stop me, and I could not smite her; t’would have been rude given I was using her as a cushion. Particularly uncomfortable sofa.
Under Protest…
Given a certain reader’s protestations about me not updating often enough, here is a new entry.
Bow News
On Saturday, Steph and I shot a full Portsmouth round, 60 arrows shot in (ostensibly) 3 arrow ends, we did 6 arrow ends for speed, on a 60cm Portsmouth face. I achieved a new PB with a score of 439, the weight difference between my old club bow and my new bow is quite a bit, both in the weight of the riser and the poundage of the limbs, but I’ll get used to it. My grouping seems to be improving which is nice, but I’m still guilty of a crappy loose. Meh.
Away for the weekend
This weekend I shall be mainly in Hull. Not because it’s a particularly nice place, but it has at least one nice person in it. Official: Toria’s student house doesn’t suck. Well apart from her light fitting exploding (read: fell apart in someone’s hands), though that was easy enough to repair, though a little hairy in the discovery of whether or not it was still live. NB: Folding scissors can be used as an impromptu screwdriver. I’m a little concerned their living room has a hole in the floor though, bloody students. PS: Not their fault.
Long time, no blog!
Well I finally got round to adding the link to this blog onto my home page, which is potentially something I should have done ages ago, but I’m lazy.
I went to the archery shop in Farsley last Wednesday, to no avail! They didn’t have any left handed Eclipse risers in, so I’ve got to wait until they’ve ordered it in. Grr! Goram right-handed friendly shops of doom!
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